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YPORTABLE STUVE'PIPE SHELF. No. 318,941. {;ili Y PatenteudJupe 2, 1885.

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EVERTON BARNAB-D, OF ALBANY, NEWT YORK.

PORTBLE. STOVE-PIPE SHELF.

SPECIFICATION forming part o1' Letters Patent No. 318,941, dated June 2,1885.

Application filed April 21, 1884. (No niodeLl To @ZZ whom. it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, EVERTON BARNARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Albany, in the county of Albany and Sta-te of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fortable Stove-Pipe Shelves, of which the following is a specifiA cation.

My invention relates to a portable stovepipe shelf in which a vertical standard having rearwardly-flaring side portions and forwardly-extended foot at its lower end, and provided with a bracing piece, sustains a shelf mounted on the upper end o1 said standard, and the whole is held in place with the stove-pipe by devices connected with the shelf and clamping with the pipe.

The object ol" my invention is to provide a portable stove-pipe shelf which can be readily applied to any cook stove or range and its pipe without changing or adding to the stove or range any olher devices than those used by nie, as hereinafter particularly described. I attain this object by means of the mechanism illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure l represents a plan view of the shelf and its clamping device and the vertical standard. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the saine, taken at line No. l in Fig. 1, showing the invention. Fig. 3 is a horizontal view taken at line No. 2 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a front elevation showing the invention. Figs. 5 and 6 are plan views of the shelf and modifications of the clamping device for holding the shelf in secure connection with the pipe.

The saine letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A represents the top plate of a stove, and B is the stove-pipe secured to said top plate by means of pipe-collar a.

(l is the vertical shelfvstandard, made, preferahly, of cast metal, and with a length of about eighteen inches, (more or less,) as may be preferred. The lower end of this standard is provided with a right-angular portion, b, which I term the foot77 This foot projects forward from the vertical plane of the standard to a distance of three inches, (more or less) and is preferably braced with theV standard by brace c.

The body of this standard is made with a width of about seven inches, preferably, and has its marginal side portions` d d, curved rearward, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, or flared rearwardly, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5. This rearward extension of portions cl d, together with the forward extension of foot b, having bearing on the top surface of the top plate of the stove, operates to hold the standard in a vertical position, the lower ends of portions d d operating to prevent the standard from tilting backward, while the foot I) operates to prevent it from tilting forward. This standard may be provided with ears e, Fig. Ll, for hold ing supplemental swinging shelves S.

D is the shelf, rnade of cast nietal, with rim f at the ends and front side, for stiifening the saine. Made into this shelf, from its rear side edge, at about the middle of its length, is the semicircula-r recession D', made on a curvature of a circle nearly corresponding with that of the pipe B, of ordinary diaineter-say of about five and one-half to six inches. Cast with this shelf, and on its lower side, is spud c", for holding the shelf from shifting in relation to the upper end of standard C. Gast also solid with the shelf, and projecting downward frein its lower side, are ears or lugsgg. (Shown by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 5 and full lines in Fig. 2.) These lugs or ears are pierced, and are so situated that they will have bearing against the upper end portion of standard C, as shown. Standard C is pierced to receive theboltsmm, passing through ears g g. This shelf is placed on the upper end of standard C, with bolt-holes n in lugs f/ opposite bolt-holes in the standard, when bolts fm. will be applied and made to hold the shelf in secure attachment with the standard. This shelf is braced with the standard by brace E and bolts h h. This brace and the upper end edge of the rearwardly-projected side portions, d d, of the standard operate to hold this shelf in position at right angles with the vertical standard. The rearwardly-projected side portions, d. d, of the standard operate to stiffen that piece, so that it will not be bent or deflected from a true verlical plane when the shelf is loaded.

F is a clamping device, made with such a forni of construction as to adapt it to be applied to pipes of varying diameters-as, for

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instance, to pipes of five or five and one-half or six inches in diameter. This clamping device may be made in the form shown in Fig. l, consisting of lhe semicircular ring-piece, pivoted at one end, as at i, to the shelf, and having its opposite end provided with the curved slot Zr, by which this slotted end will be secured to the shelf by a set-bolt, Z. This i'orin of clamping device may be swung back on its pivote' to position of dotted lines shown in Fig. l, when set-bolt Z is removed, and will securely clamp the pipe B to the shelf when forced against the latter and secured by bolt Z; or it may be madein the form shown in Fig. 5, in which the device consists in pieces F', made with a curvature corresponding aboutwith that of the pipe, and pivoted ati to the shelf, with their short limbs k pierced, each with a screwthreaded hole, into which works adjustingscrew Zafter being passed through the pierced lug o,cast with shelf D. In this form of clamping device the clamping-pieces F will be forced to tightly clamp pipe B, when the adjusting-screws are turned to draw short limbs lo toward lugs o. A reverse movement of these screws will release these clamping-pieces from the pipe; or the forni shown in Fig. 6 may be employed, in which a semicircular clamping-piece F2, made on a curvature corresponding about with pipe B, and provided with horizontally-extended ears k2, is employed in connection with lugs o', pierced with a screw-threaded hole, and receiving adjustingscrews Z, working` through said lugs and against ears k2, to force the clamping-piece against the pipe.

One or more adjusting-screws (working through screw-threaded holes made in the lower end'of standard C, as at q, and against the base or lower end of pipe) are provided for holding the lower end of standard C at one given distance from the pipe when the pipe is made to taper in its front and rear sides, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. By these adjustingscrews q the standard C may be readily adjusted in a vertical position in all cases, Whether or not the pipe is round or more or less oval and tapering in its front and rear side walls.

By means of my above-described improvements I am enabled to provide with a stove and its pipe a shelf which is readily detachable, and which may be readily attached to pipes which are circularin their walls throughout their entire length from the stove-top, or to pipes which have their lower ends oval in form and tapering in their front and rear side portions of wall.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

The vertical stand ard C, having its marginal side portions, d cZ, curved or flared rearwardly, and provided with the forwardly-extended foot b, in combination with shelf D, resting on the upper end of said standard, and secured by lugs g g to said standard, and brace E, counected with both the said standard and shelf, and devices connected with the shelf for clamping the same to the pipe, all substantially as described, for operations and purposes set forth.

EVERTON BARNABD.

Vitnesses:

CHARLns SELKIRK, ALEX. SELKIRK, Jr. 

